justmebd wrote:Zero Hour: I knew ABC was either going to screw it up, cancel it, or screw it up and cancel it, so I never watched one minute of it. Anyone here give it a shot?

ABC tried hard to screw it up. The background sound track was so loud during the first two episodes that you couldn't hear what the characters were saying. Complaints all over the ABC.com boards. That problem was finally corrected for Week 3.

Concept a bit different for commercial TV, sort of a National Treasure/DaVinci Code treasure hunt. Twelve clocks the main characters must hunt down to avoid the end of the world!!! Don't know how much longer I'll tune in, because I don't see the series coming to a satisfying end. ABC will at some time cancel it without completing the story. ABC and NBC are real good at that.

Jerry - ABC did screw it up for me. 1 1/2 episodes and I'm out. I couldn't take it any more. The sound was so bad the second episode I couldnt figure out what anyone was saying, and it wasn't even close to good enough to power through.

It didn't seem to me to be any big loss because, although with better sound I would have given it longer, I wasn't holding out much hope tht it would be anything other than a giant turd.

Vikings was okay. It's obviously going to be about Ragnar vs the Earl and his own brother. I don't get why the Earl is so bent on there not being any lands to west, not sure how he couldn't know England existed.

I've actively caught up on The Following via HULU just to see how awful it is and whew....

The only problem (and why I am not going to watch further) is that it fails to even come close to being amusingly terrible. It's complete and utter lack of self-awareness is stunning. If the writers were worth a damn they'd at least be making fun of themselves at this juncture. Instead every single ridiculous moment is treated as the single most important ridiculous moment ever!!!!

The chick w/ the little boys haircut is really slutty though. So there is that.

Cerebral_DownTime wrote:Vikings is hilariously bad. But i'm going to keep watching, i'm not one to miss a train wreck.

Unfortunate but yeah. But I'll keep watching for a few weeks at least because, hey, it's the History Channel's first crack at it. And I appreciate the effort. But it does kind of suck.

On the other hand, it's way more entertaining g than The Following, which has no redeeming qualities. I am done with it. I thought it was a good concept. I'm not sure if I was way wrong, or if they just ruined it. But the result is the same.

Thank Dog for The Americans, which is kicking at least 6 shades of ass right now.

The Americans. I'm one episode behind, but I just caught up on one last night. This show is not slowing down. Still great.

Last night, the scene where Stan (FBI neighbor) is telling the story to the KGB agent, who's obviously scared shitless, was great. The one where he's talking about hunting and wounded birds and retriever dogs picking them up with a soft mouth. It was one of the best scenes on TV so far this year. Noah Emmerich is great.

motherscratcher wrote:The Americans. I'm one episode behind, but I just caught up on one last night. This show is not slowing down. Still great.

Last night, the scene where Stan (FBI neighbor) is telling the story to the KGB agent, who's obviously scared shitless, was great. The one where he's talking about hunting and wounded birds and retriever dogs picking them up with a soft mouth. It was one of the best scenes on TV so far this year. Noah Emmerich is great.

Absolutely Riveting scene.

It's brilliant how this show has built tension despite "knowing" how everything will eventually end.

I didn't have much hope for it but Hannibal is amazing. The cinematography for the pilot made it feel like a movie. Hannibal is the villain from Casino Royale and does a very creepy, understated Lector. Show is based on the book Red Dragon and focuses more on Will Graham and his relationship with Lector before he's found out to be a cannibal.

rebelwithoutaclue wrote:I didn't have much hope for it but Hannibal is amazing. The cinematography for the pilot made it feel like a movie. Hannibal is the villain from Casino Royale and does a very creepy, understated Lector. Show is based on the book Red Dragon and focuses more on Will Graham and his relationship with Lector before he's found out to be a cannibal.

Warning: This is the goriest show I've ever seen on network TV.

I know him more from the main dude in Valhalla Rising, and he's the only reason that I find myself even considering watching the show.

rebelwithoutaclue wrote:I didn't have much hope for it but Hannibal is amazing. The cinematography for the pilot made it feel like a movie. Hannibal is the villain from Casino Royale and does a very creepy, understated Lector. Show is based on the book Red Dragon and focuses more on Will Graham and his relationship with Lector before he's found out to be a cannibal.

Warning: This is the goriest show I've ever seen on network TV.

I know him more from the main dude in Valhalla Rising, and he's the only reason that I find myself even considering watching the show.

Mads Mikkelsen. He's a really talented actor and one I hope makes it big here.

Other than Valhalla Rising, he was also great in Pusher 1&2, Flame and Citron, and The Hunt.

rebelwithoutaclue wrote:I didn't have much hope for it but Hannibal is amazing. The cinematography for the pilot made it feel like a movie. Hannibal is the villain from Casino Royale and does a very creepy, understated Lector. Show is based on the book Red Dragon and focuses more on Will Graham and his relationship with Lector before he's found out to be a cannibal.

Warning: This is the goriest show I've ever seen on network TV.

I know him more from the main dude in Valhalla Rising, and he's the only reason that I find myself even considering watching the show.

I've seeing eh first 2 episodes and its outstanding. The acting is great and the characters are interesting. It would have been easy, even understandable, for Hannibal to just do his best Hopkins/Cox impression. That would hae sucked. Bt he doesn't do that. They don't even bother trying to make Mads Mikkelsen do some bullshit American accent.

With every new episode, "Bates Motel" gets better and better, if you like psychological thrillers.

Freddie Highmore is picture perfect as a young Tony Perkins, a fairly normal teenager except for his latent Oedipus complex. Vera Farmiga is absolutely terrifying as the obsessive bipolar mother Norma. Virtually every main character has deep-seated, untreated mental-health issues.

And every week brings a new plot twist. There already have been four murders in the small California coastal town, with more doubtless to come.Now that "Justified" is off the air for a while, "Bates Motel" is proving to be a great replacement.

I probably watched it on your recommendation, I can't remember. But it was quite good. So next time someone tells you posting on message boards is a complete waste of time, the answer is "mostly, but not complete".

I challenge anyone to make it 5 episodes into Hemlock Grove. I watched all 13 fucking episodes. It's like True Blood, John from Cincinnati, Resident Evil, and Twin Peaks had a baby.... and then they gave that baby to Eli Roth to raise.

They did the TB version of werewolves. Just normal wolves, but bigger and stronger. Which I hate, I like the bipedal version, with claws and the whole deal. The characters remark how they stand 6' tall at the shoulders, but when you see them, they're just normal wolves. I guess NetFlix didn't want to spring for any complex costumes or CGI.

Pretty much every twist and turn you can see coming. There are some talented actors, but they can't do much with the script they were given.

Cerebral_DownTime wrote:I made it all the way through Vikings, where's my prize? "Vikings will return in 2014". I will say this, the guy who plays Loki, is awesome, the way he speaks and moves is very surreal.

Agreed. I actually thought it was okay overall, but really liked Loki.

If you want spoilers, you can google Ragnar Lothbrok. He was a real guy back in the day, and the show is very loosely based on his exploits.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves-----Abe Lincoln

Let me tell you, if any of you douchebag empty headed stuffed suit nanny politicians tries to fuck with my bacon, I’m going after you like a crazed chimpanzee on bath salts. -----Lars

Cerebral_DownTime wrote:I made it all the way through Vikings, where's my prize? "Vikings will return in 2014". I will say this, the guy who plays Loki, is awesome, the way he speaks and moves is very surreal.

Agreed. I actually thought it was okay overall, but really liked Loki.

If you want spoilers, you can google Ragnar Lothbrok. He was a real guy back in the day, and the show is very loosely based on his exploits.

Already familiar with it, my good man. According to the legend, King Aele had Ragnar thrown into a pit of vipers. In an act of revenge, Ragnar's son Ivar the Boneless captured Aele and subjected him to the "Blood Eagle".

Cerebral_DownTime wrote:I made it all the way through Vikings, where's my prize? "Vikings will return in 2014". I will say this, the guy who plays Loki, is awesome, the way he speaks and moves is very surreal.

Agreed. I actually thought it was okay overall, but really liked Loki.

If you want spoilers, you can google Ragnar Lothbrok. He was a real guy back in the day, and the show is very loosely based on his exploits.

Already familiar with it, my good man. According to the legend, King Aele had Ragnar thrown into a pit of vipers. In an act of revenge, Ragnar's son Ivar the Boneless captured Aele and subjected him to the "Blood Eagle".

I figured as much.

I think that the guys in London who killed the UK soldier should get the Blood Eagle. Not like they've never tortured and killed anyone at the Tower of London before.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves-----Abe Lincoln

Let me tell you, if any of you douchebag empty headed stuffed suit nanny politicians tries to fuck with my bacon, I’m going after you like a crazed chimpanzee on bath salts. -----Lars

Cerebral_DownTime wrote:I made it all the way through Vikings, where's my prize? "Vikings will return in 2014". I will say this, the guy who plays Loki, is awesome, the way he speaks and moves is very surreal.

Agreed. I actually thought it was okay overall, but really liked Loki.

If you want spoilers, you can google Ragnar Lothbrok. He was a real guy back in the day, and the show is very loosely based on his exploits.

Already familiar with it, my good man. According to the legend, King Aele had Ragnar thrown into a pit of vipers. In an act of revenge, Ragnar's son Ivar the Boneless captured Aele and subjected him to the "Blood Eagle".

I figured as much.

I think that the guys in London who killed the UK soldier should get the Blood Eagle. Not like they've never tortured and killed anyone at the Tower of London before.

I might have been more pissed off abut The Killing than any show I can remember. I was VERY encouraged by the pilot and first few episodes. I really thought it was going to be great, and somewhere there is a thread here about it with other nice things that people said.

And then...nothing. It didn't take long for it to get stupid and ridiculous. But I kept up through the entire first season, most.y just to see it through and find it whole killed Rosie, even if I long ago stopped giving a shit. And then the kick in the balls that was the 1st season finale...I was so pissed. No fucking way was I watching another second of that stupid fucking show.

So.... i'm to episodes 9&10 of the Spartacus series finale, still waiting for it to get awesome. It took me like 3 episodes to used to the Yodanese dialogue style again. They really pulled the rug out from under me by bringing back Gannicus.

I also don't get why they all run around in furry loincloths. It's like a goddamn ManOwar album cover come to life.

If you don't get Spartacus you don't get it CDT. I'm not gonna judge, it's pure theater doesn't appeal to all. I still hold it's really, really awesome. From episode six of season one all the way through the end. That said, the "extra" season is pointless and was only made due to that cancer thing.

I love that they got Prad Bitt to play Julius Caesar (despite the fact he was never on Crassus' staff). I loved the casting of Crassus, dude is good. But they just threw Caesar in there for really no reason whatsoever. I'm just gonna say it, I do not like the new guy playing Spartacus. He really hurts my enjoyment of the show. I am going to finish it, despite knowing how it ends.

It's not all bad, besides Crassus, I like how they portrayed the animosity between the Gauls and Germans. There are plenty of fine women too look at, Naevia gets so much hotter when she becomes a fighter, that blonde German chick is smoking hot (dual knives, dude).